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Apr 12 2005, 06:56 PM
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If all goes well, Venus Express will be a major topic for discussion in this forum a year from now. Does anyone know how good the surface coverage will be from VIRTIS and VMC? My understanding is that VIRTIS will obtain low resolution multispectral maps, and that VMC will, in addition to cloud monitoring, have one channel that can see the surface, but I don't know at what resolution or at what quality. It will be nice to have some non-radar images of Venus' surface besides the Venera snapshots and the shadowy images from Earth and Galileo's NIMS.
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Nov 10 2005, 12:53 PM
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QUOTE (The Messenger @ Nov 10 2005, 01:43 AM) Where do you get all this stuff? I have been looking for the descent profiles for Spirit and Opportunity for a year now! I got that from Jay Bergstralh's talk on the problem at COMPLEX -- but there have been some notes scattered around previously on the Web on the subject, though I'd have to track them down. (Bergstralh obligingly included a graph, which I'd never seen before, of the precise degree to which MER-A's air-density readings were below the 12-27-03 estimate -- the zone giving most of the trouble was 20-50 km, and at one point the density was fully 12% below the worst-case prediction. MER-A came down so much faster than predicted that had it popped its chute 3 seconds later, it would have crashed.) |
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